placism / placist

[Zazula]

This bias, called "placism," discriminates against people based on where they live.

Such are the vicissitudes of a provincial placist who has rejected the munificence of the “post-war corporatist-collectivist consensus” and spent his career, or most it, in search of those venerable American intellectuals who “have sought to tear down what is artificial, factitious, imposed by remote and often coercive forces and instead cultivate what is local, organic, natural, and family-centered.”

Οι λέξεις τοπικισμός / τοπικιστής έχει πολύ συγκεκριμένο περιεχόμενο (η συμπεριφορά & οι αντιλήψεις / το άτομο που δίνει αποκλειστική προτεραιότητα στα συμφέροντα της ιδιαίτερης πατρίδας του έναντι των γενικότερων εθνικών συμφερόντων), και αποδίδει τα localism / localist αντίστοιχα (άλλα συνώνυμα: sectionalism, parochialism, regionalism, nativism).

Επομένως να πούμε placism = τοπισμός & placist = τοπιστής;

 

[nickel]

Ψήνεται ακόμα ο όρος, αλλά νομίζω ότι θα μείνει και θα κατασταλάξει σε αυτή τη σημασία. Καταθέτω κι εγώ κάποια ευρήματα καθώς και τη σκέψη ότι δεν με ενοχλεί ο τοπισμός και δεν πέρασε και κάτι καλύτερο από το μυαλό μου.

When a person tries to order take-out, but the operator says they can't take their order because they don't deliver in that area. That is flagrant placism.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Placism

The first thing we can do is extend the usual bases for unjust discrimination - sex, race, age, etc., - to include location. The home and the womb are locations, places. I therefore propose the word "placism" (rhymes with racism) to denote discrimination against stay-at-home mothers and unborn children. Societies are placist when they devalue unpaid work in the home. Governments practice placial discrimination if they tax single-income homes more steeply than others. Judges are placially intolerant when they deny rights in the womb that they affirm in the cradle. The feminist movement is a cauldron of placism because of its support of abortion.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Words+can+make+a+difference-a030063778

Και από το Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination (Pater Ackroyd, 2004, p. 315):
The connection between English spirituality and the English imagination is in fact a continuous and permanent one. It is only necessary to note, in the eighteenth century, the unique popularity of the biblical oratorio. The success of Handel's productions, in particular, rested partly on the identification of the English with the Israelites of the Old Testament and their especial rank as God's "chosen people." The oratorios, in the words of one musical historian, "made the history of the Hebrews into a kind of 'national epic' in which Englishmen could see themselves." It is an ancient and well-worn theme; a century before, John Milton remarked that "God reveals himself to his servants and, as his manner is, first to his Englishmen." It is the secret of Handel's Messiah which, according to one commentator, "sums up to perfection and with the greatest eloquence the religious faith, ethical, congregational, and utterly unmystical, of the average Englishman." Handel himself became a naturalised Englishman in 1727, after his art had been thoroughly assimilated. The power of place is once again manifested. We may call it placism, as an antidote to racism. The English oratorio was in fact a distinct and readily identifiable form; it was adapted from continental models and from its inception incorporated English, French, Italian and German elements to create a familiar mixed and "mungrell" style. It was part drama, part anthem, and part epic; it moved from the sublime to the tender, and thus amply fulfilled the English appetite for variety and theatricality. Just as the Elizabethan settlement of the sixteenth century afforded a practical "middle ground" for those of different political persuasions, so the eighteenth-century oratorio "established a common ground for expressing certain basic religious beliefs that reunited the English as no other area of the nation's culture had done." A pragmatic instinct is at work, whereby the beliefs and practices of the Church are subtly united with the rituals of English social life.​